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An English pooch with a Russian owner has beaten off around 13,000 other challengers to be the subject of the winning Kennel Club Dog Photographer of the Year contest. Anastasia Vetkoyskaya's picture shows Sheldon, an English Springer Spaniel, going for a morning dip against an atmospheric autumnal backdrop.

Corn cobs have been highlighted as a potential dangerous food for pets in a new report. The vegetables have been behind 28 swallowing injuries that the PDSA's 50-plus British pet hospitals attended to last year.